Alberto Cairo
@albertocairo.com
Designer, journalist, and professor.
Author of 'The Art of Insight' (2023) 'How Charts Lie' (2019), 'The Truthful Art' (2016), and 'The Functional Art' (2012). NEW PROJECT: https://openvisualizationacademy.org/
Author of 'The Art of Insight' (2023) 'How Charts Lie' (2019), 'The Truthful Art' (2016), and 'The Functional Art' (2012). NEW PROJECT: https://openvisualizationacademy.org/
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I’m late in sharing it, but here is another piece about Substack making money off Nazis.
Those writers — especially those who say they are fighting tyranny and injustice — on the platform know better by now.
No excuses.
www.theguardian.com/media/2026/f...
Those writers — especially those who say they are fighting tyranny and injustice — on the platform know better by now.
No excuses.
www.theguardian.com/media/2026/f...
Revealed: How Substack makes money from hosting Nazi newsletters
Exclusive: Site takes a cut of subscriptions to content that promotes far-right ideology, white supremacy and antisemitism
www.theguardian.com
February 10, 2026 at 3:36 PM
I’m late in sharing it, but here is another piece about Substack making money off Nazis.
Those writers — especially those who say they are fighting tyranny and injustice — on the platform know better by now.
No excuses.
www.theguardian.com/media/2026/f...
Those writers — especially those who say they are fighting tyranny and injustice — on the platform know better by now.
No excuses.
www.theguardian.com/media/2026/f...
It was TriDecimated!
February 8, 2026 at 10:33 PM
It was TriDecimated!
I'm guilty of several of those!
February 8, 2026 at 10:33 PM
I'm guilty of several of those!
Love those.
"Decimate", good one! I'd say I'd use if I'm referring to eliminating 10% of something, too
"Decimate", good one! I'd say I'd use if I'm referring to eliminating 10% of something, too
February 8, 2026 at 10:27 PM
Love those.
"Decimate", good one! I'd say I'd use if I'm referring to eliminating 10% of something, too
"Decimate", good one! I'd say I'd use if I'm referring to eliminating 10% of something, too
Good one! "Prior experience" is fine, though?
February 8, 2026 at 10:19 PM
Good one! "Prior experience" is fine, though?
Most writers I know *hate* some words with the fury of a thousand suns. My most loathed words are "Leverage" (unless that it refers to an actual, physical lever,) and "Harness" (the verb, not the noun).
Curious: Do you have any words you deeply dislike?
Curious: Do you have any words you deeply dislike?
February 8, 2026 at 10:16 PM
Most writers I know *hate* some words with the fury of a thousand suns. My most loathed words are "Leverage" (unless that it refers to an actual, physical lever,) and "Harness" (the verb, not the noun).
Curious: Do you have any words you deeply dislike?
Curious: Do you have any words you deeply dislike?
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"two years of transformation" the transformation in question:
February 7, 2026 at 11:55 PM
"two years of transformation" the transformation in question:
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The White House did a dishonest y-axis so I fixed their y-axis for them, you’re welcome White House
www.howtoreadthisch.art/lets-conside...
www.howtoreadthisch.art/lets-conside...
February 7, 2026 at 5:34 PM
The White House did a dishonest y-axis so I fixed their y-axis for them, you’re welcome White House
www.howtoreadthisch.art/lets-conside...
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In this week's newsletter openvisualizationacademy.beehiiv.com/p/announcing... I write about the 'Visualising Climate' conference and about the early success of the Open Visualization Academy openvisualizationacademy.org
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Announcing 'Visualizing Climate 2026'
Join us in Bologna, Italy, for three days of climate-related data and design
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February 5, 2026 at 2:19 PM
In this week's newsletter openvisualizationacademy.beehiiv.com/p/announcing... I write about the 'Visualising Climate' conference and about the early success of the Open Visualization Academy openvisualizationacademy.org
#dataViz #infographics #dataJournalism #dataVisualization
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I didn't have time to write about the horrible news at the Washington Post. I'll try to do that next week. Still processing, as many good friends have been affected.
February 5, 2026 at 2:21 PM
I didn't have time to write about the horrible news at the Washington Post. I'll try to do that next week. Still processing, as many good friends have been affected.
In this week's newsletter openvisualizationacademy.beehiiv.com/p/announcing... I write about the 'Visualising Climate' conference and about the early success of the Open Visualization Academy openvisualizationacademy.org
#dataViz #infographics #dataJournalism #dataVisualization
#dataViz #infographics #dataJournalism #dataVisualization
Announcing 'Visualizing Climate 2026'
Join us in Bologna, Italy, for three days of climate-related data and design
openvisualizationacademy.beehiiv.com
February 5, 2026 at 2:19 PM
In this week's newsletter openvisualizationacademy.beehiiv.com/p/announcing... I write about the 'Visualising Climate' conference and about the early success of the Open Visualization Academy openvisualizationacademy.org
#dataViz #infographics #dataJournalism #dataVisualization
#dataViz #infographics #dataJournalism #dataVisualization
And they didn't invite Jesse Singal?
very weird “I am Spartacus” thing happening right now with the worst people on earth
February 5, 2026 at 2:07 PM
And they didn't invite Jesse Singal?
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Many friends in graphics and engineering from my time at The Washington Post were laid off today. What an unnecessary, upsetting disaster this has all been. Our news environment is worse off.
February 4, 2026 at 3:45 PM
Many friends in graphics and engineering from my time at The Washington Post were laid off today. What an unnecessary, upsetting disaster this has all been. Our news environment is worse off.
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Incredible. They destroyed a great newspaper because they hated the people who actually paid for it and read it so much that they'd rather scrap the paper if they couldn't get Tucker Carlson's audience bsky.app/profile/maxt...
Speaking to WaPo employees, editor Matt Murray says cuts are about “positioning ourselves to become more essential to people's lives, and what is becoming a more crowded, competitive and complicated media landscape, and after some years when, candidly, the Post has had struggles to do that."
February 4, 2026 at 3:46 PM
Incredible. They destroyed a great newspaper because they hated the people who actually paid for it and read it so much that they'd rather scrap the paper if they couldn't get Tucker Carlson's audience bsky.app/profile/maxt...
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Remember last year when the absolute incompetents that run the Washington Post set a completely unrealistic goal of 200 million paid subscribers? Who wants to wager on whether they lost their jobs today? www.nytimes.com/2025/01/16/b...
February 4, 2026 at 2:29 PM
Remember last year when the absolute incompetents that run the Washington Post set a completely unrealistic goal of 200 million paid subscribers? Who wants to wager on whether they lost their jobs today? www.nytimes.com/2025/01/16/b...
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Solidarity with the staff at WaPo this morning. I've been working in advocacy media relations for nearly a decade and have watched as countless journalists of the highest integrity are treated at best like cattle and at worst like pests in the homes of their billionaire employers.
February 4, 2026 at 1:41 PM
Solidarity with the staff at WaPo this morning. I've been working in advocacy media relations for nearly a decade and have watched as countless journalists of the highest integrity are treated at best like cattle and at worst like pests in the homes of their billionaire employers.
I've just heard that the graphics desk has been severely impacted. Terrible news.
There's zero reason for this. WoPo is owned by the 3rd richest person in the world. 🤬
Washington Post eliminates sports department and reduces overseas journalists, AP source says
The troubled Washington Post has begun implementing large-scale cutbacks, including eliminating its sports department and shrinking the number of journalists it stations overseas.
apnews.com
February 4, 2026 at 3:37 PM
I've just heard that the graphics desk has been severely impacted. Terrible news.
This:
This outdated insistence that journalists should not be human beings who address injustices but rather mere stenographers on the scene is wild. And as you note: it bears no resemblance to how journalists have always worked. See also Mary Ann Shadd Cary, David Walker, William Lloyd Garrison, you, me…
According to the rules set by award-winning expert Chris Cillizza, the following ppl are now eliminated from being considered journalists:
Ida B. Wells (because of her anti-lynching "activism")
Frederick Douglass (bc of his "partisan" views on slavery)
And, now, Don Lemon
Ida B. Wells (because of her anti-lynching "activism")
Frederick Douglass (bc of his "partisan" views on slavery)
And, now, Don Lemon
February 4, 2026 at 11:48 AM
This:
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January 30, 2026 at 3:09 PM
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No idea. I also heard it from Dirty Harry
February 3, 2026 at 3:37 PM
No idea. I also heard it from Dirty Harry